MacBook Pro Offers
Promising Start to Era
Of Intel-Powered Apple

By

Walter S. Mossberg

Updated March 2, 2006 11:59 p.m. ET

I am writing these words on a sleek, fast laptop computer powered by an Intel processor. But unlike the vast majority of Intel-powered laptops, this machine isn't running Microsoft Windows. It's the latest Macintosh laptop from Apple Computer, and the first Apple portable to run on Intel processors. Like all Apple computers, it uses the company's excellent Mac OS X operating system instead of Windows.

The new laptop, called a MacBook Pro, is the successor to Apple's PowerBook models, and at first glance, it looks just like...